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The Ashgate companion to the history of textile workers, 1650-2000

2010; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 48; Issue: 03 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5860/choice.48-1564

1943-5975

Lex Heerma van Voss, E. Hiemstra, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk,

Global trade, sustainability, and social impact

Contents: Textile workers around the world, 1650-2000: introduction to a collective work project, Els Hiemstra-Kuperus, Lex Heerma van Voss and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk Part I National Histories of Textile Workers: Textile production in Argentina, 1650-2000, Mirta Zaida Lobato Austria and Czechoslovakia: the Habsburg monarchy and its successor states, Andrea Komlosy Brazil: the origin of the textile industry, Roberta Marx Delson China, Robert Cliver Denmark: the textile industry and the formation of modern industrial relations, Lars K. Christensen Egyptian textile workers: from craft artisans facing European competition to proletarians contending with the state, Joel Beinin The German wool and cotton industry from the 16th to the 20th century, Dietrich Ebeling, Marcel Boldorf, Stefan Gorissen, Michael Mende, Anke Sczesny and Michaela Schmolz- Haberlein Great Britain: textile workers in the Lancashire cotton and Yorkshire wool industries, Alan Fowler The long globalization and textile producers in India, Tirthankar Roy The Italian textile industry, 1600-2000: labour, sectors and products, Giovanni Luigi Fontana, Walter Panciera and Giorgio Riello Japan, Janet Hunter and Helen Macnaughtan Mexican textile workers: from conquest to globalization, Jeffrey Bortz The Netherlands, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Lex Heerma van Voss and Els Hiemstra-Kuperus Poland, Piotr Franaszek The cotton textile industry in Russia and the Soviet Union, Dave Pretty Spain, Angel Smith, Carles Enrech, Carme Molinero and Pere Ysas The Ottoman empire, 1650-1922, Donald Quataert Turkey, 1922-2003, Lisa A. Seidman The evolution of the Uruguayan textile industry, Maria Magdalena Camou and Silvana Maubrigades USA: shifting landscapes of class, culture, gender, race, and protest in the American Northeast and South, Mary H. Blewett. Part II International Comparisons: Global trade and textile workers, Prasannan Parthasarathi Proto-industrialization and industrialization and 'modernity' in a global perspective, Donald Quataert The textile firm and the management of labour, Arthur McIvor Spatial division of labour, global interrelations, and imbalances in regional development, Andrea Komlosy How will we get our workers? Ethnicity and migration of global textile workers, Roberta Marx Delson Work floors under tension: working conditions and international competition in textiles, Peter Scholliers Gender and the global textile industry, Janet Hunter and Helen Macnaughtan Investigating identities within the global textile workforce, Mary H. Blewett Institutions in textile production: guilds and trade unions, Lars K. Christensen Covering the world: some conclusions to the project, Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk, Lex Heerma van Voss and Els Hiemstra-Kuperus Index.